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Jingui Yaolue · Essentials from the Golden Cabinet
13. Wasting-Thirst, Difficult Urination and Lin · Pulses, Signs and Treatment
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Reverting Yin illness gives wasting-thirst, qi rushing into Heart, painful heat in Heart, hunger without desire to eat, and vomiting upon eating. Purging brings discharge that does not stop.
A floating, slow cunkou pulse: floating means deficiency, slow depletion. Deficiency means insufficient defensive qi; depletion exhausted nutritive qi.
A floating, rapid fuyang pulse: floating means qi, rapid consumption of grain and great hardness—a variant says tightness. Flourishing qi causes frequent urine, frequent urine hardness. Hardness and frequency contending make wasting-thirst.
A man with wasting-thirst but much urine, drinking 1 dou and urinating 1 dou, is governed by Shenqi Wan. The formula is referred to under foot-qi.
Floating pulse, difficult urination, slight fever and wasting-thirst should be treated by promoting urine and sweating. Wuling San governs; its formula is referred to above.
Thirst with desire to drink but vomiting as water enters is named Water counterflow. Wuling San governs; its formula is referred to above.
Unceasing thirst and desire for water are governed by Wenge San.
Lin disorder gives urine like millet in form, a tense lower abdomen and pain drawing into the navel.
A rapid fuyang pulse means heat in Stomach, consuming grain and drawing food, hard stool and frequent urine.
A person with lin must not have sweating induced; doing so must cause blood in the discharge.
Difficult urination means Water qi. With thirst, Gualou Qumai Wan governs.
Difficult urination is governed by Puhui San. Huashi Baiyu San and Fuling Rongyan Tang also govern.
Thirst with desire for water, dry mouth and dry tongue, is governed by Baihu Jia Renshen Tang. Its formula is referred to under summerheat injury.
Floating pulse, fever, thirst with desire for water and difficult urination are governed by Zhuling Tang.
Zhuling Tang Formula
Zhuling, peeled; Fuling; Ejiao; Huashi; Zexie: 1 liang each.
With 4 sheng water first boil the four ingredients other than Ejiao to obtain 2 sheng. Strain, add the glue and melt it. Take 7 he warm three times daily.
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